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MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
We will pursue the course of the Quolla from Yaoora (where I 
should judge from description it must be about 3 miles wide) 
before we apply the routes northward of it.* One journey east- 
ward of Yaoora, (sometimes called Yawooree by the Negroes,) it 
passed Noofhe, doubtless the NyfFe of Mr. Horneman and others, 
and which De Lisle has written NoufFy : 3 journies thence it passed 
Boussa, which Amadi Fatouma reported, as it was to me also (see 
Diary) as the place of Mr. Park's death, but I could hear nothing 
of the rock and door. Boussa is not in Major RennelFs map, but 
I observed Bousa in the map of De Lisle before alluded to ; it is 
probably the Berrisa of Edrisi, Twelve journies thence it passed 
Atagara, but, previously, Hoomee, and Rakkah.-f Southward of 
the latter, they described an inland country called Koofee, possibly 
Kosie, a country I shall presently introduce, as visited by a mulatto, 
behind Lagos. Thirty journies from Atagara, it flowed through 
the kingdom of Quollaraba,J which thus falls precisely where 
rapidity. The houses in its environs are either terraced or shingled, as thatch cannot 
resist the frequent high winds." 
* The Jenne Moor has placed Gauge as an island in the Quolla just below Bousa. 
This must be the Gongoo of Imhammed, and Ben Ali, south of Cassina. Mr. Lucas 
writes " the width of the Niger is such, that even at the island of Gongoo, where the 
ferrymen reside, the sound of the loudest voice from the northern shore is scarteiy 
^ heard."" 
-f- The Jenne Moor traces the course from Yaoora, thus : Boussa, Gange, Wawa, 
Noofa, QuollaliiFa, Atagara ; the only dijBFerence being the position of the latter place, 
possibly an error of mine, as the name Atagara was not noticed in the charts I made 
the Moors draw, but only in the more particular enumerations of the countries the 
Quolla passed ; the names of which 1 minuted from their utterance, and afterwards 
attached their remarks as interpreted to me. 
I The Jenne Moor calls this Quolla liffa. Mr. Hutchison, who has a servant, a native 
of it, describes it as a very powerful kingdom, as the Shereef Brahima described it to 
me, and as was the impression of Mr. Dupuis. Mr. H. adds, on Negro and Moorish 
guthority, " it is to the King of QuallowMa that the country in which Canna, Dal(, and< 
